Brocade G620

Brocade G620

  • The Brocade G620 is built for maximum flexibility, scalability, and ease of use.
  • Organizations can scale from 24 to 64 ports with 48 SFP+ and 4 Q-Flex ports, all in an efficient 1U package.
  • Increases performance for demanding workloads across 32 Gbps links and shatters application performance barriers with up to 100 million IOPS

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High Scalability and Flexibility
High Performance
User-Centered Design

  • Provides high scalability in an ultra-dense, 1U, 64-port switch to support high-density server virtualization, cloud architectures, and flash-based storage environments
  • Enables “pay-as-you-grow” scalability -with 24 to 64 ports- for on-demand flexibility

  • Increases performance for demanding workloads across 32 Gbps links and shatters application performance barriers with up to 100 million IOPS
  • Leverages IO Insight intelligence to identify issues and understand key performance, health, and utilization trends, ensuring consistent performance
  • Increases resiliency by automatically discovering and recovering from device or network errors

  • Provides proactive, non-intrusive, realtime monitoring and alerting of storage IO health and performance with IO Insight, the industry’s first integrated network sensors
  • Leverages Brocade Fabric Vision technology to simplify administration, quickly resolve problems, increase uptime, and reduce costs
  • Simplifies troubleshooting with realtime and historical visibility in a single dashboard

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    High Scalability and Flexibility
    • Provides high scalability in an ultra-dense, 1U, 64-port switch to support high-density server virtualization, cloud architectures, and flash-based storage environments
    • Enables “pay-as-you-grow” scalability -with 24 to 64 ports- for on-demand flexibility
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    High Performance
    • Increases performance for demanding workloads across 32 Gbps links and shatters application performance barriers with up to 100 million IOPS
    • Leverages IO Insight intelligence to identify issues and understand key performance, health, and utilization trends, ensuring consistent performance
    • Increases resiliency by automatically discovering and recovering from device or network errors
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    User-Centered Design
    • Provides proactive, non-intrusive, realtime monitoring and alerting of storage IO health and performance with IO Insight, the industry’s first integrated network sensors
    • Leverages Brocade Fabric Vision technology to simplify administration, quickly resolve problems, increase uptime, and reduce costs
    • Simplifies troubleshooting with realtime and historical visibility in a single dashboard

Tech Specs

Fibre Channel ports Switch mode (default): Minimum of 24 ports and maximum of 64 ports configuration. Port numbers above minimum are enabled through 12-port SFP+ increments via Ports on Demand (PoD) licenses and through one 4-port QSFP PoD, providing 16-port increments through a Q-Flex license; E_Ports, F_Ports, D_Ports,EX_Ports.
Brocade Access Gateway default port mapping: 40 SFP+ F_Ports, 8 SFP+ N_Ports
Scalability Full-fabric architecture with a maximum of 239 switches
Certified maximum 6,000 active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade Fabric OS fabrics; larger fabrics certified as required
Performance Fibre Channel: 4.25 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 8.5 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 14.025 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 28.05 Gbps, full duplex; 112.2 Gbps, full duplex; auto-sensing of 4, 8, 16, 32 Gbps port speeds and capable of supporting 128 Gbps speeds
ISL trunking Frame-based trunking with up to eight 32 Gbps SFP+ ports per ISL trunk or up to two 128 Gbps QSFP ports per ISL trunk. Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade Fabric OS.
Aggregate bandwidth 2 Tbps
Maximum fabric latency Latency for locally switched ports is 900 ns; compression is 1 μs per node
Maximum frame size 2,112-byte payload
Frame buffers 15,360 dynamically allocated
Classes of service 2,112-byte payload
Maximum IP MTU size Jumbo Frames at 9,216 bytes
Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)
Port types D_Port (ClearLink Diagnostic Port), E_Port, EX_Port, F_Port, AE_Port; optional port-type control Brocade Access Gateway mode: F_Port and NPIV-enabled N_Port
Data traffic types Fabric switches supporting unicast
Media types 128 Gbps: Brocade G620 requires Brocade hot-pluggable QSFP, MPO connector; 128 Gbps SWL
64 Gbps: Brocade G620 requires Brocade hot-pluggable QSFP, MPO connector; 64 Gbps SWL
32 Gbps: Brocade G620 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 32 Gbps SWL/LWL
16 Gbps: Brocade G620 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 16 Gbps SWL/LWL
Fibre Channel distance subject to fiber-optic cable and port speed.
Fabric services

Note: Some fabric services do not apply or are unavailable in Brocade Access Gateway mode.
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS); Flow Vision; Brocade Adaptive Networking (Ingress Rate Limiting, Traffic Isolation, QoS); Fabric Performance Impact (FPI) monitoring; Slow Drain Device Quarantine (SDDQ); Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN zoning, broadcast zoning, peer zoning, target-driven zoning); Dynamic Fabric Provisioning (DFP); Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); Brocade Extended Fabrics; Enhanced BB Credit Recovery; FDMI; Frame Redirection; Frame-based Trunking; FSPF; Integrated Routing; IPoFC; Brocade ISL Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; Time Server; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Reliable Commit Service (RCS); Simple Name Server (SNS); Virtual Fabrics (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric); Read Diagnostics Parameter (RDP)

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